Personalised Plates In The UK

[Coatesy351]

After reading the the "What crappy personalised plates have you seen" thread,
it got me wondering is there any reason why they cant issue actual personalised plates that don't have to be made of numbers and letters?
Surely it would be a good money earner for the DVLA. It won't stop stupid number plates but most of the personalised ones I see for sale in the UK I can hardly make out what there meant to say.

[Coatesy351]

All Letters so it actually spells what you want, or a combination like RS 500.

Edited by Coatesy351 on Wednesday 20th August 09:27

[Coatesy351]

Dog Star said:

If the cherished plate market didn't exist in the form that it does in the UK then I imagine that the DVLA would like nothing better than to be able to sell people whatever they would like (within reason) on their reg plates. It'd be a total money-spinner.

However the pitch has been queered by the state of affairs that exists now where "C1 TTY" (random example) is "worth", say, 2K. There'd be uproar if all the people with all these existing cherished plates suddenly found that their contrived plate was suddenly worth the square root of fsck-all because DVLA were now selling "MAN CITY" instead.

Shame really - be great if it was like the US and you could have what you want.

Ah this make sense. Who Decides how much a plate is worth? Here in West Aus it's first in best dressed. You pay a fee to the department of transport for your type of personalised plate (most expensive are $655) and if you sell it, you decide on the price.

[Coatesy351]

StefanVXR8 said:

It's great here in Oz, was toying with this one myself, sure it would slip under the radar.......



Stef

Ha Ha depends how on the ball the DOT are.